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Pwatourn JAN. 16.---AMved the Princess Char:, at kite Frigate frorri Cork. - I Sailed the Foriunde Frigate, With several Trans , ports under convoy hating Troops on board, bound to Cork; and the Joseph Cutter,. with a Fleet of Merchantmen under convoy,. for Bristol. . The Portugueze Ship Ulysses, which arrived,here on WedneSddy last, from the i3.r3iils; detained by .Sir SIDNEY Sith - rit's Sqnadron, While laying . in Cat water, grounded on a sand bank, by which accident she 'heeled so much, that her mainmast was bb- liged to be cut away yesterday morning, in order to right her, which produced the desired effed, and she has been since warped off into deep water without sustaining much ddmage. • Arrived the Halifax Sloop of War from Ports mouth. 111,11:G4TE, J. 16. Oct Thursday afte'rtioon last, about four o'clock, the fishermen of this town observing the sea unu- 'sually rough, with a , very 'strong - wind from, the North, and accordingly expelling a very bad night, began to secure their small craft ;, unfortunately they were not wrong in their conjedures, for in less than a quarter of an hour the wind suddenly changed to the N. N. W. and continued to blow with the moit dreadful fury till. three o'clock the next morning,— libotit five o'cloCk in the evening, the tide rose so Ligh, as to wash over the, pier wall'into the Marine . Parade, when the poor fist - fent - ,n Were seen drag ging their boats into the streets of the town ; this time a man of the name of Po'ind, whose bust - 'less is to hoist the light at the*Pier-head,. set Off to. perform his duty, although at the risk of his life.— On his return, he advised . one of the privates of the Denbigh Militia, &jug duty in this town, who , was on guard,at the Pier-head, to leave his post ; at the same time informing him of the danger he was in, which the pOlir fellow positiVely refused'io do, de , Oaring " that whatever may be my late, I am:a soldier, and never will desert my post !" upon which the otherleft him, and with difficulty got back,-- lie had not left bim long, before the soldier% box, to which , he had fastened himself, was; by the vio lence of the wind and waves, thrown doWn, when: ,with the greatest difficulty he succeededin •lashing Lipself by his belts to the bodj of ti'e crane, Oppo ' slie,the stere:4lOuse: He did..nOt remain long in this situation, before the waves began to break over, him, and at the same timecarrying away with them the large stones' whic4 formed., the 'parapet of the pier wall, as well as the heavy benms and planks of . . the store houses, so that lie was in the must irtiniia rent danger of being dashed to pieCes ; be at length succeeded in getting on the cross-bar of the crane, • where he remained suspended by his belts till the :vett morning, when, about ten o'clock, the gale hay ing considerably moderated, he was cut down almost • lifeless by some fishermen ,in a boat, - who went out to rescue him : 'he was conveyed to ,',)e Foy public house where he has since recovered. The store -I,,,,ikkis on the...pier, 'the' harbour. Inister's house, the three heaps of -cannon-balls, the short cannon, and-upwards of 25 fe e t o f t h ek North side of the Fier, are. completely washed away, so that scarcely 'any thing is len in that part but the remains of the bare, walls, except the Jetty Head, beyond the stcre --• houses, where the crane was fixed, which is .Iln.- .damaged. The Kings warehotise, at the bottom of the pier, was'nearly.filled with 'water, aid several tasks of spirits, which were deposited in the Cellar; . were washed out to sea. The cellars of the Foy: boat public-house, kept by Mr. Stannard, a • very worthy youngman, were tilled with water, 'in con ! sequence of which seven butts of porter burst, which blew up the whole of the flooring of the tap room, bar, and parlotir, - besidestonsiderably damag ing the hotite: . The large fishin.;-boats in the bar . 'boor belonging to Massrs.. Palmer i J.. Pound, and and Saltenbank, as well as the Goo d intent ,Packeti were stoye to . piers`.,. Two collier .Brigs and tw o ' Yaw . ls were carried over the wall on . the Parade; - dose under the gfittc.loi,vs of the. hotel kept by. the 1 ' hit': !Nir. • Mitchener.; the hut are mere.wrecks, and the Brigs have received considerable damage. -water overflowed King-sm....et, as high as the FOuni tain Inn.' You eoili conceive the 'strength of the waves, when art anchor, which .was picked up tit sea ; . weighing Upwards of t 6 cwt, lying on. the Pier s Valk, was washed, behind the: King's Ware - Itiuse. A. little before twevle o'clock that part of ,the . „Iligh,itreet leading to Nir. Hobart"s !lathing Rooms, ' o the King's Eleatt inn, including 'Garner's library - and dwelling-housepgave way with a most tremen dous crash, and was instanily•washed out.. to ..sea.— ......Theek part of 'the King's liead,.„.lnn,...kept by Mrs. Cricket, was blown by the force of the .• waves. The ground under•ttia houses in Hazardous row, to the depth of nearly tv.'enty ieet, is washed 'lttvay;'And they"are fit . preseiit supported,by the back expeded every -moment _to give way, as the road leading to Westbrook, before these'. 7,libuies, is cornpletely' washed away. Tba sea has forced its' "passage .(n .consequence of . the banks, which kept .it from Overflowing the works) up the Malley, as far as Shotten Dean, being , nearly one " mile' in length. The following is: a list of the per sons whose hotries were washed away, viz. Mr. Pobart's Bathing-rooms, Mr. Tennent's house, Mr. Garner's house and library, Mr. Row's shop„, Mrs.. Sayer's Bathing-rooms, Mrs. Wood's Bathing-roonis, the widow Palmer's" Bathing-rooms, Mr. and. Mrs. Clack's Subscription-rooms, Hugh's Bathing-rooms,: rat of the King's-Head, &c. The shock was so sudden arid unexpeeted that numbers of women were carried by men cot of. their houses,. or they must. inevitably have perished. The new road to Dandelion, which was being made over the brooks, at a considerable expence, has been nearly destroyed. The houses of Mr. Osborne and Mr. Hurst, in the High-street, areexpe&ed to fall every moment, :as the earth, up to the very threshhold of ,their doors, is carried away. The cliff's on the 'west side of Margate lost more ground on that night than they Lave ever been knOwn.to do in the course of twelve years. Iu short, the daMage done is unknown, and - the consternation and misery of the inhabitants beg gar all description. 'Ale damage is estimated at 30,0001. * '• • ODE -** FOR THE NEW YEAR ISOS. I SY HENRY JAMEZ rift, E. P. L. Behold yon lurid Orb that seems • Devious thro' mother's paths to stray, .And, While,with`baleful light it gleams, Appears to trace no certain Way.; No influence mild with genial force Waits ort its desultery course ; But myriads view its .s: reaming hail' Shed death and horror thro'.the While even Science piercing sight, Clear 'from the mists of visionary fears, . Anxious beholds the erratic StranBer's flight, Lest mingling with the planetary spheres It shake the-order 01 the miglity frame, Destroy-with ponderous shock,or melt with sulphurous flame. Such is alas! the dread ;hat watts On savage inroad's wild . career, - While trembling round, the pcicetul States Survey its meteor course with fear. And as the-intinortal mandate guides, . • And points the Comet where to stray : ' So through the'battle's crimson tides' It points ambition's fatal way; Submissive both tit' Eternal's will perform, As at his high behest the earthquake and the storm. But as with ray benign and bland The radient Ruler -of the Year Sheds pleitty on the smiling land, - Where-e'r his ing beams appear, Now mkes,the roseate bloom of Spring, Fann'd by young Zephyr's tepid wing, . Or clothes the wide expanding plain With Summer's fruit and Autumn's grain ; Or gthering 'from the watery. shores Sources of,vegetable stores, • -Renews seerch'd Earth's exhausted powers With balmy dews and gentle showers; So from the patriot Monarch's care, • Whose breast no dreams of conquest move,• Founding his gkory on his people's love, -And proud to boast unbounded empire there, The copious rills of Peace domestic stream, Warm gloWs far Virtue's flame, and bright, Religion's beam. 9 Oa IT A IN, may thy harpy coast, Th6'lond oppression rage around, To the applauding nations beatt.. One' shore with peace, with mercy crown'd : Still May thy li,ispitable seat . • To stiffering Greatness yield a safe retreat ; - , For when the Sacred fiat of the skies First caus'd thy sea-encircled Realm to rise, It bade it an eternal column stand, Sacred to want and woe from every clime and land. • • Find. oly rup. VIII. S!roplie 2. WINDSOR Tim\ Tatcal,s.—A most eimom and laughable' eireumqaticti occur red at the Windsor Theatre on Siiturday evening : it seams great appre hensiiin had been. entertailled . that INC LEDOni and DOWTON would occasion a disappointmrAt • bitrilar to that which kid been recently eskiienced by the absence of a favourite Aareii, and those ksa‘liei and 'Gentlemen who went to the Theatre would not p,:y their money Until they•were agsured the two per formers who wore eXpetied were in the house, and Many even then' doubting the fad, the Belloian was sent round to make the folldwlng prbelaina- tiou „" This, is to give, notice to all whom it may con -cern, that' owing to -some -recent disappointments at the Windsor Theatre, doubts having arisen re speaing the performance of Mesirs. INcLuciost and Dow.row ; notice is hereby, given, that those Gen tlemeu are arrived, and thatthey will most 'certain ly perfOrm this evening The parts expressed in the hand billsof the clay.. 'Go save the Kiug." The Salcette Frigate, Captain liAitntivott,. left . Madrition the 22c1 of September. If we make al lowances -for the various stoppages on her passage, ,at the Cape of Good , Hope ; and other places, it ap peals that she has performed an Ent India voyage "in three inonths. It has been whispered at the India :House, that she was dispatched with intelligence not of the most pleasing nature. It intimates that some th X iety is entertained concerning the proceedings in Per,sia. The report is again revived, that a French , force ic..in that country, organizing the. Persians. The Salcette-fell in with a French Frigate, with two country-built Ships, her pizes, in the Indian Seas, and gave chace to them. From the superiority of her sailing, we suppose she must have been. able to come up with one of-them, had she continued the 'clitice; but it is probable:she desisted from pursuing them to any .great distiince, from her instrditions to make the bilst . of her way to Engiand with her dis patches. Sir Joittt CiAnnoca: was to return home by'thd'October Fleet,; PLrala was AO hitie the .. management of affairs hi his absence, aiid'until a successor, appointed. by Government, should reach India. It is supposed that Sir GEORti BARLoW will 'be appointed., 'General Flawri-r and Lord MiNro had arrived at Madras; t!ie forrn - eitO succeed Lord LA in Chief. By the same conveyance we learn the totiowing intelligenee:— „., The WiinthaM, STEWA Tr, and Loyal George CR MULE, an ived at Madras.... il'orcester, and Uniti4Wingdom, arrived at Ma- . dras the sloth of , September. • • . . Cartion and Devonshire, at' Bombay, the of September. ' , Surrey and Lady Castlereagh, at Madras. Duke of Montrose parted the IV4cester 15th Sep tetnber, lat. 8.61. N. long, 82: s 4. E. for, Bengal . . .4(fi-ed ,parted the WinTeSter 2ati August, for Ben cooler, hit. 37. 17. S. long. 61i. in. E. • Castle mid' Lord Haaikesbuty,- spoke with July 10, lat. 19. long. 6. W. . . • Ceylon, Walpole, Surrey,:Coutts, Taunton Castle, Hope, Inodford, and . Earl of Camden, off' Ceylon, September 3. , One of the Savannah Papers mentions, that* Bill had been introduced into the Lower House of the Legislature of that State, and had made somepro gress, to prohibit the reading any British Statuse or authority, after the year 1808: Tne same Body had passed a Bill for preventing swearing, and ‘‘ occupied in others to, prevent lying and tirtvAeti. Hesse Oi l BALI Y. . SATURDAY, - J ANUA RY . , George Russell, was indicted for a capital offence, that of stealing a piece of gold wire value 21. cos. the 'property of his master, Joseph Glenny, in his dwelling-house. The case was quito clearly made out against the Trisoner„for the . , gold- wire was taken out of his pocket,and he,_coufessed that he had robbed his master before, who °tiered to abstain front. prose, outing him, if he would tell to whom he was in the 'habit of taking the gold wire, bin he obstinately re fosing, Was taken before a Magistrate, and. coin- Mitted fur trial. Guilty--zbeath. •His master, who is a watch-case-maker, in Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, said that the Prisoner was Mart of weak understanding, but obstinate ; he bad reason to believe he was under the dominion of a wicked person„ who received the property ; that was the proper person to be punished : as to this poor . critature, he wished the Court would slew all the lenity that was consistent with justice. The Jiiry joined in this sentiment, and recotiarnended the Pd loner to mercy, on the ground which bad been hu , 'lnanely stated by the Prosecutor; - Jahn Adams was inditled for that , he on the loth of June last, with a shaTp instrument, struck and cut Williatn Barret, feloniously, Maliciously, and unlawfully, with intent to kill and murder him. The Second Count in the Inditament, stated it to be with intent to disable him. The Third stated it to be done with intent to`do him somegrievous bodily harm. The Prosecutor, Barret, is a Constable at Poplar ; went out the night in question in company v. ith Lee, the Headborough, to quell a riot in the neigh bourhood, but the rioters had dispersed before the Officers,Of the Police'came up—as they passed an alley where the Prisoner lived, they passed' a wom:n, to whom Barret spoke, asking her what she did at that time of night, fer it was twelve ? why did not she go to her lodging ? She had none,. she said. Then I will give you a lodging, said Barret : just at that instant the Prisoner rushed out with a pieee of iron, as it was thought troin,the effe& aft:l - Wards, to knock down Lee; saying, I will teach you to come here. He then ran - to Barret, and struck him - several blows with 'the saiue instiumeut ; followed him for too yards ; at last struck him on the head so violently that he fell to the ground, apparently lifeless. He was taken up and carried to bed, and had' medical assistance, but was confined for two months in consequence of this injury. Tne Prisoner being afterwards asked, if lie meant to murder the man, said, , if he had not killed him it was his in tention to do so. The Prisoner afterwards made his escape, and was no more heard of until the 14th of December ; when Lee saw- him on his trial at the SessionS-Hense; Hicks's-Hall, for uttering bad. mo ney ;- 'of which offence he was acquitted. He wentout and ran off, but was'nvertakeo by Thomas Robinson, the Constable., who hau a warrant for that purpose. . • • • He alleged in his defencei that his prosecutors, the police officers, were rude to his wife and that in consequence of her calling for his assistance, ho went out with a broomstick to defend her ; he struck these persona, and they brought this charge against ka fi to p r e v ent his proseeutiog _there:. And after the Learned Judge bad summed up the apse. to the jury, a witness appeared, but atter,uttering one sentence, went out of Court. . . • Thejury found hint Guilty,--Demb. And a clues lion of law is reserved for, the opinion of the Judges, whether this is a cutting julder . tl ine:ining of the Act of Parliament commonly called Lord Ellenbo rough'a Ad. John Charle4 Forster . Roper, a very yeting man, and an officer in the Royal Navy, was capitally in dieted for feloniowily stealing, on the, sth . 01,Decetia-, tier, in the dwelling house of Robert Dunhar r a car tail' Note or Order tin the payment of rnuney, of the . value of :Mi. 9d. the property of the said 'Robert Dunbar. After the case had, been stated. by' the Counsel for the prosecution, the following' witties3es were brotight forward in suppUrt of tO.oliatne, ,who stated to the following effea . - • Alexander Allen, a clerk to Mr. Unbar, who is an Insurance Broker, ande.sides at, N o. 16, Old ,Jorttlou-street, Fenet ureh-street,, state 1, That on the 4th. of last 'month he, reckiived an order which' came frotn Mr.-Johiisun Tor 331. 9d. He put the order into a tin box, which lay .on the desk. He locked the box, but the key was left in it. On his cross-examination by the Prlsorier's_Counsel, he said he left aloting man of the name of Osborne in the office when hetinitted it. Mr. Osborne is a clerk in the house. John Blakeway, another of Mr. Dunbar's clerks said he recei - ved, the draft question horn a clerk of Mr. 4olinsOn, and ',gave it_ to Mr, Allen, the last •• witness. , Ckitles Neal, -a clerk Of Mr. Johnion'a; 1 ",00 4. e4 a draft from that (;entleitian fir 4 - 31, fetIVIO. Dunbar, Whic ‘ h he gave to Mr. Blake w ay, the la 4 WitLieS3.` , • SiltatitllSueit, a clerk of Mr. Dunbar's, saw . dead Prisoner come to their Office abort Irdl-past four o'clock, or later, on tile eveping.faf the .sth of Dm— cernber, coMpany. - with Air. Iltoina's,Osborta4, the brother at' Mr. Osborne, oi.e-ot the Prosecuterls elerks._„. - Mr:Tt: °lnas:Osborne upstairs'' t0 . ,-SOC Wit falt er (WllO it 'W:04111.. appear N. 1 ,43 also iriilc house), and beg pd to leave the-Pristiner in the office. the while. He saw t he" tin box standh4On the desk, he put it into an iron chest, Why n he4eft•the (Alice the Prisoner was there alone ; the Won then was not theniceked. '4.'LiotnasOsh9rue, an Officer in the Royal Mauves, stated, that when he went ut - istairx at Mr. Due bar's be lett , the Pristine! 1,, the eotttiting ; •house when' he croon: dowti by found' bun there alone: they then went together towards the Tl. , eatre.• When iu the Strand, they stopped nt illeshop of Mr2,Sitint, a shoemaker, where Mr.• the Prisoner,. bought a pair of boots, and 'paid for them by means of a draft. of ;3,31. 9tl. which he said ,he had from,. his guardian, Admiral 'Savage : he had the 1 . 14300 i. part o f and some money; as part of the .account of the draft., They w nt atterAards to another shop. The Prisoner said, as,they wpre coming :dole Fetichurch : street, hag; got o:`diart ~Vieliau Mar to 1, foreman: . to.Mt“tiittint, shoe.: maker, in the Strand, said the Prisoner came to tieiir giOp . oirrhir Trt7 - zrf - turinoTrtirph4 lace Wit=" ,e,e,as was . ku liir0:110 - Rodiii,,,d • • ' - pair of boot 4, and'presented ti draft for 331, c..- After consulting consulting with 114 r. Swat, he g<i“.! 31. is. in part of the order, and the remAiii,ler the amount he was to call for on the Monday, which he did. Peter Crump, a servant of Mr. Stunt's, r,N% - ive..l the amount of the order at Messrs;tee' and Co.'l, Bankers, 71,. Lornbard-street. One of Messrs. Lee's Clerks stated his haying paid the amount of the order to the last Witness. Mr. John Lomas Johnson, on the draft shewn. to - him, said it was the same which he had sent to Mr. Dunbar's on; the,day Mentioned. Mr. Robert' Dunbar said, that Mr. Johnson was not directly indebted to ,him ; but from the Moment the order in question cam into his puise.ssieli, he conceived it to be his pteperty / An objedion was here taken, as to the stria legal. .: validity of the order in question, and on account of its consequent inadmissibility as evidence. The sum of this appeared 'to be, That by the provisions of the ACt which exempted from the Stamp-duty of Tyio Shillings, drafts upon iiersons aging ae Bankers (to a certain amount), drawn within ten miles of the place where payment is made; it was necessary th4t, 1 the name of the .plaee where the order was drawn should be mentiuned and engrossed in the draft; — this, it *was contended, was not the ease .with t,144 draft in question, as the word Liorden, mentiphed therein, referred merely to the local residence of the Bankers. . The Counsel for the Prosecution contended, that ;, the place and date appeared adequ:Jely on the trice of the iustrunteht, which was purported to hava been . drawn in London, and therefore within We meaning of the Ad. This fad was afterwards acknowledged by ',Vr; Johnson. The opinion of Mr. Racoanita was rather against the objection, it appearing on the face of the instru ment that it was drawn in London. • • The Prisoner .being called upon for hisdefetlce; stated, in a faint and tremulous voice, a circuinsta.',- tial detail, with respe&l to his goitig to the Proieeti• tor's house; with Thomas Osborne; - &e. He aanoV ledged he. saw the tin bolt lying on the desk with the key in it, but protested that „he never touched it ; neither did he see any thing of an jrou The two Mr. ()shames came out with him 'from * the Prosecutorono of them parted company at 6e corner of Gracechurch-street. In. that street Mr. 061.;orne told him he had get'a, check, and asked him her he could get it discounted. He th mentioned Mr. Stunt's shop, where they went ; and concluded by. relating whatilad passed at the shoe, maker's. No Witnesses appeared in his behalf. ' Mr. Rt:CORi)ER sutnined up' the, evidence, and .'delivered' a very impartial and, •appru i ii:::,z charge thereon.. th noticed the phjedinn `fat' lti Prisoner's Cduns - el, which, 39 , cpmbining a co;ri deration of fad as .veil as of law, they .would on view of, the instrument, in some measure io deckle. ThnJury retired ti consider Of theiri,erdl6l, - orld after, three-clikirters of au hotir's returned into Coilri. (at half paq nine' o'elocky,'lfd pronounced the l'rtotter Nut (guilty. Thiti in.oriuticiat iott caused 'some plancliti i t4e galleries, - which were se% erely reprehenjed 1 cotto.za. 'N* The Prisoner vas greatly atroaeti while tne werq.out,,nearlY to. fainting: 'He - was tibligd supported by.'one of the attend,ons t'or • 5p ) :0 , -.; and had x glass ,of water. Tito vcrditi of the Jlif seemed a !Ole to revive The- Prisoner is a tall gentedl lad, 'dark t plexion; and was dressed in black, with a bLi c k silk stock. On Saturday a Qounnittee of the Privy coun6l sat at the Council Qttice, to hear ,evel Ap peals. It was attended by Earl CANtt,Etq, the Lord President; Sir W. SCOTT, the Judge of the A..litti ralty ; the MASTeIt Of the RoLLs, Sirs W. WY 4I pi and E. INTE.PLU.N. • It is stated in a 'Paper of this morning that .144 d • TRAI A4:AR,'SOII of Earl NELsoig, died yesteld;',y:or a typhons fever. On Sattirday evening as General MortitAt entering London from - the countrk, a large mink was cut front' his carriv.., in Oxford -street, or Holborn. One of the greAtOt of . all plagues is the ineurn. brance of.an old house, of Which the atutit,d ' expellee ofrePairi frequently exceeds its i.alue. , t so will complain the. jiirtunatc, )whO are to .pos,:i4 the Man! Capital Houses in the 'present City Leo tery. New, and substantially built, they will rani for generatiuns, and each be obtaitted fur a stake. of adventure of lesi amount than it would cost p art old building. , Duero', JAN.. I i:b.—;-Botne persons near tullatnOre, Ki C 1 t btie onnty, w_rwe oo ll scs b eers plun dered, and.wh6i;e lionies had been stolen, traeedtho ,xObbers_to the neighbourhoOd ofMaryboroi igh, v'yhdia .thlwhorie's, greatly exhausted, were left by those w.f., ' had rade then), and who ttispersed, On al,ii iven, the thieves were poring(' in iariotia:dire4lo.: and one follow, laden with boOty, , ;mai, tiikou • aliOilier at the entrairee of Kilkenny , .ni. m two ore at: C43lllAllitiCk, near it,:itbn4an. first of thesti four, on ] beitig'carried to the - gaol ef=l4ry--. borough, g3vo infoimation t Ct *' coo tog c, ur thirty, diiipc. , tseci in various parts of tl, fcit)g - Acid On Counties, and,ii Countks 0•,.' Kilkenny, wflo iegularly'corrnntiicateii with Ca stain, with whorn they had agre t tri n nuniertinT 'oiheirobbOtia, fortuultt...ly pri:venw(l. All tll parries are Wall I.nown, arid the now in s'eureli of then t : ."' w- ~ , his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Rt.p?,lA,, 1.1;.s Ekeelleney . Lord GaA.Ntn..t. L.uyILSIIN G 4 has been graciously: pleased tp presont 1. Wunovvotn4 of:JRB - Oxtorti-street, Itiveruc , , -;;t Patentee.ol , 4 tErettitblt) Copying Michil4, caljed fc.rfltu Nianifoki Wliter,'/ with a supeib Ring, of cut-millet-able. Nan ExcitAvon,-JAN. 8 --There ti;; dling supply of whtmt airivei to city, are effetted at, an increase in riet.! cat ;. per quartet,p. fuieLlititity ; „. likewise Fe.ase of the twg kinds are .keep pricet4 Diticara s9j2siorat and tbttsaleßP,re nearly at our lait ~A 44) price. s ~, 't ,